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Steve Stricker, winner of multiple golf tournaments, continues to battle back issues
Steve Stricker, one of the best senior golfers, is an Edgerton, Wisconsin native. But, Stricker has been dealing with a nagging back injury that forced him to withdraw from the Chubb Classic last ...
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A pilot study of the prevalence of lumbar disc degeneration in elite athletes with lower back pain at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
Results: The disc signal intensity was progressively reduced the more caudal the disc space. It was most common at the L5/S1 level, and, of the abnormal group, 36% (n = 11) showed the most ...
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Lumbar intervertebral disk degeneration in Japanese male volleyball players belonging to the national team
Objective To identify the reason of the lower back pain, a detailed MRI analysis of disk degeneration (DD ... of five intervertebral disks (L1/2 to L5/S1) on MRI using Pfirrmann's classification.
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Accuracy of Physical Examination for Chronic Lumbar Radiculopathy
Results The prevalence of disc herniation was 77.8% ... 1.74 (95% CI 1.04–2.93) for L5, and 1.29 (95% CI 0.97–1.72) for S1 nerve root impingement. An overall clinical evaluation, concluding ...